Is Spirituality About Running Away From The World?

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People ask me, "Swamiji, if we should stop comparing and everything, then does it mean we should renounce everything and become a spiritualist?"

Most people think that the moment I say you should stop comparing, stop running etc., I am asking them to escape from all the worldly matters and become a spiritualist. Especially while talking about this Vishuddhi chakra, they start feeling this way.

You see, Spirituality, or for that matter Sannyas, is not about renouncing at all. It is about having the deep awareness, which will automatically shrink your mad desires to basic needs and which will give you the Energy to fulfill them and turn inwards.

Whatever needs to be done in the outer world needs to be done, no doubt. You have to earn your living; you have to look into related matters; you have to keep the body alive. All I am saying is, bring in awareness into all this so that all unnecessary occupations in the outer world, automatically disappear and you live with a clear understanding of the purpose of your very birth and life.

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